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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 25 May 2010 15:07:35 Aaron Bentley wrote:
> On 05/25/2010 10:04 AM, Julian Edwards wrote:
> > I was using kvm with a CPU that has the virtual extensions.  At the time,
> > it took about 4 hours instead of the normal 3h 30m natively.
> > 
> > Maybe it was disk contention?
> 
> Most likely.  I always see lots of IOWait when I run the test suite.  (I
> use the System Monitor applet and have IOWait set to a different colour.)

My laptop with an Intel i5 and SSD runs the tests in about 2h 30m so it seems 
disk speed is a large factor.

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